Every now and then you might need to block specific third parties from accessing your Internet sites. There are a number of automatic bots that crawl the Internet, for instance, and create fake visits and website traffic. There's also spammers that leave links to shady Internet sites as comments to site articles. This kind of things may significantly undermine your hard work, simply because no one likes to visit an Internet site with hundreds of fake comments, plus the increased site traffic from both spammers and bots may generate high load on the web server on which your Internet site is hosted, that could result in the site not working properly. Among the most effective solutions in this case is to block the IPs which generate the fake traffic, as a way to be certain that the visits to your Internet site are legitimate.

IP Blocking in Shared Website Hosting

Our Linux shared website hosting provide an IP blocking tool, so in case you want to limit the access to your sites, it shall be able to do this with only several clicks. The tool is provided with the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with all accounts and that is very simple to use. As soon as you log in and check out the IP blocking section, you will just have to choose a domain or a subdomain hosted within the account and enter the IP address which should be blocked. Our system will permit you to block whole networks as well, so if you type in 123.123.123., for example, this shall block all IP addresses between 123.123.123.1 and 123.123.123.255 from accessing your sites. If you want to whitelist an IP at some point, you can unblock it with simply a mouse click from the same section.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with our Linux semi-dedicated hosting, will enable you to solve the challenge with unwanted traffic very efficiently. It incorporates an IP blocking tool in which you can add IP addresses with only a couple of mouse clicks. All domains and subdomains that you have within the account will be listed in a drop-down menu, so you just need to choose the one you need and then type the IP address which has to be blocked. If you would like to block a whole range, a C-class network for example, you just have to type in the first 3 octets of the IP and leave the last one blank. That will block all 254 addresses, so you shall not have to type them by hand. Since all the IPs that you include in this section shall be listed, you could quickly unblock any of them by clicking the Delete button associated with the particular IP.